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288 pages Year Published: 2011

Best Practices for Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses is a collection of previously unpublished papers in which contributing authors describe and recommend best practices for creating, developing, and teaching credit-bearing information literacy (IL) courses at the college and university level. The editor solicited academic librarians from universities, four-year colleges, and community colleges to contribute chapters that demonstrate successful IL course endeavors at their respective institutions. The book includes several case studies of both classroom and online IL courses; some are elective and some required, some are discipline-specific, and others are integrated into academic programs or departments. Contributors discuss useful and effective methods for developing, teaching, assessing, and marketing the course. Also included are chapters on theoretical approaches to the course and on the history of it in higher education. Organized around three themes—create, develop, and teach—this book provides practitioners and administrators with a start-to-finish guide to best practices for credit-bearing IL courses.

This book is suitable for community college, college, and university libraries as well as a pedagogical tool for library and information schools.
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

PrefaceChristopher V. Hollister—University at Buffalo

History and Evolution of Credit IL Courses in Higher EducationSara Holder—McGill University

Creating the Credit IL Course in a University SettingCatherine Cardwell and Colleen Boff—Bowling Green State University

Nemawashi: Integrating the Credit Information Literacy Course into a Community College CurriculumCharles Keyes and Elizabeth S. Namei—LaGuardia Community College

Christopher V. Hollister is an Associate Librarian with the University at Buffalo Libraries, where he is currently liaison to the Graduate School of Education, chair of the Information Literacy Task Force, and coordinator for the credit-bearing IL course, Library Research Methods. Chris is also an adjunct instructor for the University’s Department of Library and Information Studies, and he created and regularly teaches the undergraduate level credit course, Introduction to Birding. Chris is co-founder and co-editor of the open access journal, Communications in Information Literacy, which was awarded the Special Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation by the ACRL Instruction Section in 2009.

To what extent and in what ways have academic libraries incorporated Web search strategies into their information literacy instruction? This CLIP Note gathers descriptions of current practice from college libraries of all sizes.